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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1917
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM
AND SUN-TELEGRAM
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; Think how many of the comforts of your life
are the result of advertising. Business Chat.
The Library Fund Richmond is asked to raise $1200 as its allot ment to help supply the soldiers with books.
The cause is a meritorious one. The appeal
atinuld he heeded. Richmond has wealth. Rich
mond has patriotism. Subscribe the money and buy the books. Those of us who stay at home will b& able to buy our daily newspapers, current magazines and books. The war will not interrupt our channels of obtaining information. With the soldiers it is far different. They are thousands of miles from home. Newspapers are rare and precious. Magazines and books are almost priceless. The boys at the training camps will need the books. Their recreation will be circumscribed by military regulations. They will not be able to buy the newspapers, magazines and books whenever they want to, for the supply will not be at hand. Well stock libraries at the training camps are essential for the, happiness of the fighters who are undergoing training. Everybody contribute. WhoseWarlsThis? By Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis This is Freedom's war; it is Democracy's war; it is America's war. To say that the United States should have held aloof, that we had no business to join with the Allies against the Imperial Government is to offer a pitiful illustration of density. The Kaiser and the powerful autocracy he controls began this war with the hope of dominating the world. . No one had attacked Germany. Ever since the Franco-Prussian war the German Empire has been preparing to add ,to its territory and seize new ports for its commerce. Germany's African colonies were a failure; she must look nearer home for opportunities of expansion, and to military power as the means to gratify her greed. Neither France nor England had attacked Germany. The Balkan troubles were only an excuse for the sudden unlooked-for flinging of the German army toward Paris. The best diplomatic and literary genius of Germany has attempted to justify that march upon Paris that plunged the world into the most stupendous war in history. The attempts at justification do not justify. Germany, after exerting all her energies for years to develop the greatest fighting machine ever assembled, seized an hour when her neighbors were off-guard to put her armies in motion. Belgium's magnificent resistance to the invader, the splendid valor of France alone saved Paris, and when he failed to reach the French capital in that first dash, the Kaiser lost the war. That civilization has now turned against Germany is the fault of the Kaiser and the servile autocracy that supports him in his fanatical programme of conquest. It is the fault, too, of the German people who have meekly cringed before their rulers, and accepted the doctrine of Ger
many's predestined place as the dominant political and commercial power of the world. The first result of the effort to assert this doctrine and impose it upon the rest of humanity, beating down democratic institutions as England, America and France have realized them, was ,to bring the world to arms against Germany. The second was to arouse a world-wide distrust and hatred of Germany and Germans that will not pass in a hundred years. The Kaiser, far from being an omnipotent being, incapable of error, has blundered incredibly at every turn. He was misled for years by the army of spies he maintained in this country into believing that the Germans who migrated to the United States to escape from Kaiserism were ready to aid the Imperial German Government in its schemes of world domination by taking orders from Berlin whenever the fateful hour struck. In other words, the' German-American citizen was, in the view of the Hohenzollern powers, a potential traitor to the land of his adoption, ready at all times to welcome and assist the Imperial armies when they should undertake to add the American Republic to German territory.
Here and there some mischief has been done!
by German agents, but with the passing of Von Bernstorf, the Kaiser's hope of an uprising of former subjects of the imperial crown ended. The chief effect of the German propaganda in the United States has been to arouse suspicion and animosity against thousands of loyal American citizens of German birth and antecedents who, having enjoyed American liberty and profited by American opportunities, have shown no great anxiety to betray America into the Kaiser's hands. If the mad Hohenzollern had leaned less confidently upon the hope that his former subjects in America would support his cause we should not now be at war with the Imperial German Government. If he had respected international law and not directed his war of frightfulness against us, a people who had no wish to wage war against him, we should not now be preparing to strike down his presumptions with every ounce of power we possess. His attempt to block the great sea-lanes to neutrals, his destruction of American lives and property merely as part of his policy of terrorism, made it incumbent upon us, for our own protection and in the defense of humanity to sound the call to arms. We fight first for the dignity, honor and security of America; and incidental to this high purpose is a holy crusade in behalf of all free peoples to protect them from the rapacity and cruelty of autocracy. If the Kaiser wins, the tide of civilization will be turned back a thousand years. The court house that stands in every American county seat as the symbol and' instrument of Anglo-Saxon freedom and justice is menaced so long as the autocratic Hohenzollern commands an army. We fight for the cause that Christ, the first great teacher of Democracy, preached to lowly men; we defend in this war ideals of free government that have developed in the course of man's long struggle for freedom, that are marked by the great charter won at Runny mede, by the French revolution, by our own struggle for independence, and by the war for a slaveless America that ended at Appomattox. Not our war? No man, woman or child in America but is immediately and personally concerned in this fierce struggle. Caesarism and Kaiserism have rallied for a last stand. The Kaiser, cloaked and helmeted like a character of
Wagnerian opera, is leading his hosts against
Twentieth Century Democracy. His case is des
perate because he is well aware that when he loses, as he surely will lose, he and his kind pass to the scrap heap forever. With us this is not a war for gain; its purpose is to hold and make unassailable for all time what our' fathers won
for us, and what it is our solemn duty to pass on
to our children s children as their inalienable
heritage.
The blood shed in this struggle is upon the Kaiser's head. There will be no peace in this
world so long as one soldier or one battleship car
ries his pirate flag. We make war that all who
love liberty, honor, decency and mercy, no mat
ter where they live or under what flag, may lift
their faces in hope and be conscious of the jus tice of God.
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The man ran, lest they carry out their threat, for men joke grimly in the "Hills." Ismail came and held King's stirrup, striding beside him with the easy Hillman gait. "Art thou my man at last?" King asked him, but Ismail laughed and shook his head. "I am her man." , "Where is she?" King asked. "Nay, who am I that I should know? "But she sent thee?" . "Aye, she sent me." "To what purpose ?" "To her purpose!" the Afridl answered, and King could not get another word out of him. He fell behind. But out of the corner of his eye, and once
or twice by looking back deliberately, King saw that Ismail was taking the
members of his new band one by one and whispering to them. What he said was a mystery, but as they talked each man looked at King. And the more they talked the better pleased
they seemed. And as the day wore on the more deferential they grew. By midday of King wanted to dismount there were three at least to hold his stirrup and ten to help him mount again. CHAPTER" XVIII . Four thousand men with women and children and baggage do not move bo swiftly as one, man or a dozen, especially In the . "Hills,- where discipline is reckoned beneath a proud man's honor. There were many miles to go before Khinjan when night fell and the mullah bade' them camp. He bade them camp because they would have done It otherwise in any case. "And we," said King to his all but eighty who crowded around him, "being men with new eyes and with' a great new hope In us, will halt here and eat the evening meal and watch for an opportunity." "Opportunity for what?" they asked him.
"An opportunity to show how Allah loves the brave!" said King, and they had to be content with that, for he would say no more to them. Seeing he would not talk, they made their little ires all around him and watched their women cook the food. The mullah would not let them eat until he and the whole camp had prayed like the only righteous. When the evening meal was eaten, and the sentries had been set at every vantage point, and the men all sat about cleansing their beards and fingers the mullah sent for the hakim again. Only this time he sent twenty men to fetch him. There was so nearly a fight that the
skin all down King's back was goose-
flash, for a fight at that juncture ' would have ruined everything. At the
least he would have been made a
hopeless, helpless prisoner. But in the end the mullah's men drew off snarl
ing, and before they could have time to receive, new orders or reinforce
ments. King's die was cast. There came another order from the mullah. The women and children were to be left in camp next dawn, and to remain there until sent for. There was murmuring at that around the camp, and especially among King's contingent. But King laughed. "It is good!" he said. "Why? How so?" they asked him. ' "Bid your women make for the Khyber soon after the mullah marches tomorrow. Bid them travel down the Khyber until we and they meet!" "But" 1 . . "Please yourselves, sahibs!" The hakim's air was one of supremest indifference. "As for me, I leave no women behind me in the mountains.
I am content."
They murmured a while, but they
gave the orders to their women, and King watched the women nod. And
a!l that while Ismail watched him with 1
corefully disguised concern, but un
disguised interest. And King under
stood. Enlightenment comes to a man
swiftly, when it does come, as a rule.
He recalled that Yasmini had not
done much to make his first entry in
to Khinjan easy. On the contrary, she had put him on his mettle and had
set Rewa Giinga to the task of fright
ening him and had tested- him and tried him before tempting him at last.
She must be watching him now, for even tha East repeats itself. She had sent Ismail for that purpose. It might be Ismail's business to drive a
knife in him at the first opportunity.
but he doubted that. It was much more likely that, having failed in an
attempt to have him murdered, she
was superstitiously remorseful. Her course would depend on his. If he failed, she was done with him. If he succeeded in establishing a strong
position of his own, she would yield To be continued
Masonic Calendar
Friday, Sept. 21. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting; work in Mark Master degree.
SAYS A CORN ACTS LIKE ELECTRIC BELL
Tells why a corn ic so painful and says cutting makes them grow.
Press an electric button and you form a contact with a live wire which rings the bell. When your shoes press against your corn it pushes its sharp roots down upon a sensitive nerve and you get a shock of pain. Instead of trimming your corns, which merely makes them grow, just step into any drug store and ask for a quarter of an ounce of freezone. This will cost very little but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. A few drops applied directly upon a tender, aching corn stops the soreness instantly, and soon the corn shrivels up so it lifts
right out, root and all, without pain.
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Russian armies in new activities near Riga have forced Teuton retreats and captured position. The Germans have been forced to retreat near Hapsal (1) and have also been driven out of Sadzen farm, to the south of Sizzeral (2), the Russians occupying both of these evacuated positions. It is further stated that northeast of Friedrichstadt (3) Russian detachments, after a brisk engagement, captured German positions in a wood near Biddag.
Revelations of a Wife BY ADELE GARRISON
The Reconciliation There is no cure for a quarrel like loneliness and reflection. Dicky had not been gone a half-hour after our disagreement over the cat before I was wondering how we both could have been so silly. I thought it out carefully. I could see that Dicky was accustomed to having his own way unquestioned. He had told me once that his mother and sister had spoiled him, and I reflected that he evidently expected me to go in the same way. On the other hand, I had been absolutely my own mistress for years, the little mother in a way being more my child than I hers. Accustomed to decide for myself every question of my life I had no desire, neither had I intention of doing any clinging vine act with Dicky posing as the strong oak. But I also had the common sense
to see that there would be real issues in our lives without wasting our ammunition over a cat. Then, top, the remembrance of Dicky's happy face when he thought he was surprising me tugged at my heart. "If he wants a cat, a cat he shall have," I said to myself, and calling my unwelcome guest to me with a resolute determination to do my duty by the beast, no matter how distasteful the task, I was just putting a saucer of milk in front of her when the door opened and Dicky came in like a whirlwind. "How do you wear sackcloth and ashes?' He caught me in his arms as he made the query. "If you've got any in the house bring 'em along and I'll put them on. Seriously, girl, I'm awfully sorry I let my temper out of its little cage. No nice thing getting angry at your bride, because she does
not like cats. I'll take the beast back tomorrow." "Indeed, youH do no such thing," I protested. "You're not the only one who is sorry. I made up my mind before you came back not only to keep this cat, but to learn to like her." Dick kissed me. "You're a brick, sweetheart," he said heartily, "and I have got a reward for you, a peace offering. Get on your frills, for we're going to a first night, John Drew in his . revival of 'Rosemary. Sanders was called out of town, had the tickets on bis hands, and turned them over to me. Hurry up while I get into my moonlights." "Your what?" I was mystified. "Evening clothes, goose." Dick threw the words over his shoulder as he took down the telephone receiver. "Can you dress in hajf an hour? We have only that." "I'll be ready." As I closed the door of my room I heard Dick ask for the number of the taxicab company where he kept an account. Impulsively, I started toward him to remonstrate against the extravagance, but stopped as I heard the patter of rain aginst the windows. "I'll leave this evening entirely In Dicky's hands," I resolved as I let down my hair. I have always thanked my stars for rny hair. It is my very best point, long, abundant and silky, with just enough curl to it to keep it from getting stringy in damp weather. It i3 of that reddish blond so often imitated and so rare in its natural state. I never bother much with its dressing, simply coiling It softly high upon my head, so I was soon finished with that part of my toilet. Then I changed my house shoes and hose for my bst evening shoes, curiously beaded black satin pumps, and a pair of fine silk stockings embroidered in" tiny French
! knots. ! "Almost ready, Madge?" called Dick
from the other bedroom. "Only my gown," I called back, opening the closet door and taking from its wrappings the prettier of the two evening gowns which my trousseau boasted. I do love that gown. I have had few pretty things in my life, but when I married I resolved to have some nice clothes to do Dicky honor, and I spent a good share a foolish share I am afraid of my savings upon my wedding outfit. The foundation of the dress is charmeuse, in Dick's favorite color, the green of the first tender leaves of the spring, and it is veiled with chiffon crepe of the latest rose tint, with sprays of apple blossoms running riot over it. To be continued
Michigan believes it has enough salt to supply the world for 2,000 years.
BOYS BEING ENLISTED FOR WORK IN FIELDS
CENTERVILLE. Ind.. Sept. 20. Boys for fall harvesting, according to plans advocated by Vernon E. Brammer of the county defense board, are being enlisted here for work. The boys are assured that they will not be subjected to anything approaching military service, but will be allowed to return, either to high school, or elsewhere after the harvest is garnered. -
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